Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up . Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up.

Today Google announced that Google Plus Hangouts video chat is getting an upgrade. As our readers know, Hangouts has long been one of the best features Google Plus has to offer, with up to 10 people in a single video chat at once--we're even holding our monthly ReelSEO writers' call on Hangouts

I interviewed Google’s spokesperson Andrea Faville to learn more about the video features available on Google Plus Pages for business; along with a number of examples from businesses across the small-to-large range, and the great new “Hangouts with Extras” they’re previewing for everyone! If you haven’t already done so, I recommend also checking out Jeremy Scott’s earlier coverage here at ReelSEO on Google Plus Pages for Business & Brands . Video Examples on Google Plus Pages for Business “We've already seen a number of businesses do great things with video on their Google+ Pages.” says Andrea. Here’s a few examples she shared: A number of larger businesses , like the

I interviewed social media strategist and video blogger Chris Brogan at the recent Blogworld New Media Expo conference in Los Angeles. Chris shared with me in this video interview why he’s a big fan of Google Plus Hangouts, along with the benefits of other online video conferencing programs for today’s business professionals.

Google has announced that Google Apps are now available with Google Plus. This means that if you’re a Google Apps user, whether you use the paid Business version or just the free version, you can now turn on Google Plus for your organization, and all your users will have the access and ability to get started on the Google Plus social network. Google Apps Users Now Able To Join Google Plus When Google Plus first opened to the public, it was still unavailable to Google Apps users, which was a point of frustration for many who wanted to get in.

Google Plus, the social networking service that has long been in a restricted field test, is now officially in beta.

Some weeks we are just on fire, and able to cover most of the important breaking stories in the world of online video. Other weeks, our site crashes and we spend entire days just trying to get it back up . This past week was one of the latter

Google Hangouts just got a major boost in publicity from one of the biggest properties in the Google empire: YouTube. The video platform has just added a new sharing option below every video player on the site that allows viewers to start a Google Hangout session centered around that particular video This means that you and your friends–up to 10 of them–can watch and comment on it together in real time.

Google Plus is barely more than a month old. And while it’s seen staggering growth rates in new user sign-ups during that time, sign-ups alone aren’t going to sustain Google Plus’ future

Google Plus is still a juggernaut in terms of buzz (pardon the Google-product pun).